{"id":2800,"date":"2011-11-08T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2011-11-07T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T17:27:46","slug":"five-differences-between-charter-and-district-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/11\/08\/five-differences-between-charter-and-district-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Differences Between Charter and District School Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1716\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Florida International Academy charter school students in Opa Locka, Florida.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/107906481.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1716\" title=\"New Florida Governor Rick Scott  Visits Charter School\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/107906481-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/107906481-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/107906481-220x155.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/107906481.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Raedle \/ Getty News Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida International Academy charter school students in Opa Locka, Florida.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Charter schools are public schools, but the two public options have a stronger appeal for some students than others.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five differences between district school students and charter school students according to a StateImpact Florida analysis of Florida Department of Education <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/eias\/eiaspubs\/pubflorida.asp\">2010-2011 school year data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Charter school students are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More likely to be Hispanic \u2013 Hispanics comprise a larger percentage of charter school students, marking the most significant difference between the demographics of traditional public schools and charter schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><div class=\"related-content alignleft\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/12\/loopholes-in-florida-law-leave-room-for-corruption-in-charter-schools\/\">Loopholes In Florida Law Mean Little Oversight of Charter Business Deals<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/14\/school-boards-getting-tough-on-charter-applications\/\">School Boards Getting Tough on Charter Applications<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/09\/26\/a-stateimpact-florida-series-do-charter-schools-work\/\">A StateImpact Florida Series: Do Charter Schools Work?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/07\/studentsforstateimpact-60x60.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/topic\/charter-schools\/\">Where Did The Idea Of Charter Schools Come\u00a0From?<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than one in three charter school students is Hispanic, 36.5 percent, according to a StateImpact Florida analysis of state data posted online. Hispanics comprise 27.8 percent of traditional public schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Less likely to be black \u2013 The difference is smaller than the difference in charter and district school enrollment for Hispanic students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Less likely to be Asian \u2013 Asian students comprise a small percentage of Florida public school students. District school reported 2.5 percent of their students are Asian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Less likely to be on free or reduced lunch &#8212;\u00a0 Nearly six in ten district school students \u2013 58.7 percent &#8212; qualifies for free or reduced lunch by federal standards. Less than half of charter school students \u2013 48.7 percent \u2013 meet the same standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The median school percentage of district students qualifying for federal free or reduced lunch was 66 percent. Charters\u2019 median school percentage of students qualifying for federal free or reduced lunch was 52.5 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Less likely to have to learn English \u2013 District schools reported 9.3 percent of their students were not native English speakers. Charter schools reported 8.2 percent of their students needed to learn English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charter schools are public schools, but the two public options have a stronger appeal for some students than others. Here are five differences between district school students and charter school students according to a StateImpact Florida analysis of Florida Department of Education 2010-2011 school year data. Charter school students are: More likely to be Hispanic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1035,1008],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}